Mark 7:13

BSB · Public Domain (CC0)

“Thus you nullify the word of God by the tradition you have handed down. And you do so in many such matters.””

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BSBPD

“Thus you nullify the word of God by the tradition you have handed down. And you do so in many such matters.””

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“making void the word of God by your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things ye do.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“setting aside the word of God for your tradition that ye delivered; and many such like things ye do.'”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Mark 7:13 — 10 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Isaiah 8:20To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, they have no light of dawn.
  2. Jeremiah 8:8How can you say, ‘We are wise, and the Law of the LORD is with us,’ when in fact the lying pen of the scribes has produced a deception?
  3. Ezekiel 18:14Now suppose this son has a son who sees all the sins his father has committed, considers them, and does not do likewise:
  4. Hosea 8:12Though I wrote for them the great things of My law, they regarded them as something strange.
  5. Matthew 5:17Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets. I have not come to abolish them, but to fulfill them.
  6. Matthew 15:6he need not honor his father or mother with it. Thus you nullify the word of God for the sake of your tradition.
  7. Mark 7:3Now in holding to the tradition of the elders, the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat until they wash their hands ceremonially.
  8. Mark 7:9He went on to say, “You neatly set aside the command of God to maintain your own tradition.
  9. Galatians 5:21and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
  10. Titus 1:14and will pay no attention to Jewish myths or to the commands of men who have rejected the truth.

Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

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